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I think it may be something to do with the fact they are HSM because the first two are on the recall list.I telephoned SIGMA UK today. It seems the man employed in customer relations for UK was a little less polite.At first he knew nothing of a recall until I informed him it had been announced on his website.I was put on hold for 5 minutes and was then told I needed receipts for the camera with warranty cards and receipts for the lenses.When I told him I had purchased the lenses under 6 months ago from an online company he preceded to tell me off and suggested I was a criminal & hadn’t paid import duty.

Unless I can prove import duty has been paid I will be charged £37.50 per lense for a fix on 2 lenses which are under 6 months old have paid nearly a £1000 for.

He wasnt happy when I suggested it was his company that had avoided paying costs to SONY.

"This lens would need upgrading for the A77, we are only upgrading the lenses if you have bought the A77 and therefore ask that you supply a purchase receipt for the camera as well as the lens when sending the lens into us.

If the lens is under a year old there will be no charge if the lens is older please see the following:

1: £5.00 per lens if you have proof of purchase for the lens from new which is to cover return p&p.

2: £37.99 per lens if you have no proof of purchase which is to cover the cost of Admin and postage.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

If you are based outside the UK please inform us and we will put you in contact with your nearest Sigma Agent"

OK but if you upgrade in the future you might get a bit of a bill.. So hold onto you receipts and the one for the work done as if you try to sell it later it would be helpful to prove it is compatible with the A&& and A65

I now have only one excuse left for not buying this camera, money. Unfortunately, I CAN afford it at the moment, hmmm....

Brief impressions of the camera:

Lovely to handleEVF is AMAZING!! I was very worried about this but needlessly as it turns out.LOTS of functions (I think that there may be a bit of a learning curve until I'm as familiar as I am with my 7D)The 12fps is just sillyThe 16-50 lens is lovely too, compact, super silent focus, fast, etc., etc.